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14/11/1996 Drama, Romance, War 2h 42m
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In love, there are no boundaries.

Overview

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

  1. Anthony Minghella

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Ralph Fiennes

    Almásy

  2. Juliette Binoche

    Hana

  3. Willem Dafoe

    David Caravaggio

  4. Kristin Scott Thomas

    Katharine Clifton

  5. Naveen Andrews

    Sikh Kip

  6. Colin Firth

    Geoffrey Clifton

  7. Julian Wadham

    Madox

  8. Torri Higginson

    Mary

  9. Jürgen Prochnow

    Major Muller

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-06-29
"Hana" (Juliette Binoche) volunteers to remain in war-torn Italy to look after her badly burnt patient. Who is he? Well nobody knows. All he recalls is that he came from England and that some time ago he was married. The arrival of the enigmatic Canadian "Caravaggio" (Willem Dafoe) starts to unravel the mystery as his suspicions as to the bedridden man's true identity, along with that man's gradually more lucid recollections take us back to a time when he first arrived in North Africa. He is "Count Almásy (Ralph Fiennes) who has come to draw maps. The onset of WWII interrupts his cartography,...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$27,000,000.00

Revenue
$231,976,425.00

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